About the day » Wednesday October 29, 1924Calender converter

• Clyde 'Bud' Everhart Teeter Jr., Lansing, Tompkins Co., NY († 2003)
• Bouwe de Boer, den Helder († 1994)
• Cornelus Luijten, Etten-Leur († 1995)
• Cornelius B. Dezarn, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky († 1982)
• Adelbertus Maria Admiraal, Egmond-Binnen, Nederland († 2011)
• Geertiena Huizing, Leek, Groningen, Nederland († 2013)
• Adriaan Kool, Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Adriaan Renaat Rutten, Berchem († 1989)
• Catharina Pot († 1999)
• "Eric" Marie Huon Rodriguez de Sevin, Châteauroux (Indre, France († 1990)

• boudewijn de ROMPH (30), puttershoek
• Alexander Staes (74)
• Antonia Snikkers (50), Rotterdam
• adriana schuurman (43), utrecht
• Andrias Johannes Hendrikus Karreman (75), Dieren
• Berend Kreeft (0), Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Berthola Wouters (65), Aruba
• Adrianus Johannes Karreman (75), Dieren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolina Johanna Eleanore Bodenz (72), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Isabella As (67), Woensdrecht, Noord Brabant, nederland

• 1922 » Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer († 2008)
• 1923 » Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright († 2015)
• 1923 » Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper († 2015)
• 1925 » Dominick Dunne, American journalist and author († 2009)
• 1925 » Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet († 2012)
• 1925 » Klaus Roth, British mathematician († 2015)
• 1925 » Robert Hardy, English actor († 2017)
• 1925 » Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer († 1985)
• 1926 » Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor († 2015)
• 1926 » Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey († 2011)

• 1911 » Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 » John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 » Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)
• 1924 » Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (b. 1849)
• 1932 » Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863)
• 1933 » George Luks, American painter and illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1933 » Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853)
• 1936 » Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

The temperature on October 29, 1924 was between 10.4 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.